Abstract
A MORE comprehensive and intricate mass of material has been successfully analysed and integrated in this masterly exposition of Darlington's than in any other biological treatise of such small size known to the reviewer. The book is not to be recommended to those who are reluctant to read closely and to do a good deal of hard thinking; and it will displease both those who abhor a contemplation of the forest because of its trees, and those who find it too irksome to study the trees because of the forest. But for those willing to make the effort to understand both in their relations to one another it will prove brilliant, illuminating and highly stimulating, no matter whether or not they agree with all the details in Darlington's remarkably coherent and unifying system of interpretations.
The Evolution of Genetic Systems
By C. D. Darlington. Pp. xi + 149. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1939.) 10s. 6d. net.
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MULLER, H. The Evolution of Genetic Systems. Nature 144, 648–650 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144648a0
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